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September 17th, 2008
09:43 PM ET
Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 9/17/08
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Helloooo Erica,Coop and everyone......
This is a REALLY scary time and I can only pray that we are ready to create a shift.Its time to create change but the truth being its going to take everyone's participation–no one president/person can do it alone....no matter how much "fighting" he has done for the country-Lol!!
The Republicans are not answering what they are going to do with the economy. I have not heard any plans come out of there mouths during this economic down turn. Anderson why ain't the Republicans giving us thier policies to fix this mess not the same old stump speech?
Supposedly, the buyout of AIG was to save us...that's what the govt is saying..that AIG is too important to let fail and if it did fail, we would suffer horribly, possibly plunge straight into a depression...so the govt did it to save the American ppl...*shrug*
I would like to see the candidates stop all of the bashing and get to the point! We need decisions on the economy and world affairs. Not mud slinging!
Did I just hear Anderson say we lost $700 Billion dollars today? $700 BILLION. We are not headed towards a recession, we are headed towards a depression.
Nice job, CNN, of chopping up the McCain-Palin town hall meeting. I watched it and it was awful. She stumbled on the foreign policy question. But, who would know it watching your chopped broadcast.
Anderson, I was wondering if the CNN or National Polls take into account the massive number of young adults who only use cell phones.
Cindy Crowley has just said "the Obama campaign are rejoicing because they have had a great week, because wall street is in trouble", who wants a president who rejoices when things are going wrong?????
By the way it was Senator McCain that warned everyone that this would happen and introduced a regulatory bill to prevent this but it was blocked by none other than the Democrats....so please spare me that this is all Republican based.
I'm an independant and more and more of us are goin McCain. Obama is continually taking the high road and more and more he is being caught with his hand in the cookie jar
Palin is truly a politician! She did not give an answer to any of the questions! She really scares me!
Wow! She still couldn't offer any specifics.
The more scrutiny this gets the more likely that those Wall Street execs had better spend their ill gotten money on defense lawyers...
Also I would not look to travel to any countries where they could be indicted. or worse. And how can John McCain so conveniently repudiate his party's political philosophy that browbeats government
regulation?
Who is the one running for predident, Palin or McCain? Sounds like she is the one taking center stage
Maverick = unpredictable, reckless. We need predictable and stable. We need someone that is an expert on the Constitution and lives by it. NOT two mavericks that have short fuzes.
The so called Town Hall Meeting was pre-ticketed. So all those people where Republicans i guess !
I would like to see both candidates go in to "Town Hall Meetings" of the other side and answer real questions.
Too much greed that it is a plague of the elite. I am not asking for a million dollars just be able to afford a life without killing myself or running over dedicated honest hard working employees.
Are we bailing out the rich again ?
Obama.....keep talking about the issues and how you will turn around this horrible Economy...and people will come around eventually even if they do not want to....
Here is something to think about, for 85 billion, you could have every citizen with healthcare, fully covered health care.......by saving AIG, I think the US government just bought that for everyone.....?
Yes Palin took questions, only she didn't really answer them to much, but something is better then nothing
Hellooo Anderson, Erica and best bloggers...
Ouch!!!! not good day for stock wall!!!!! it is very scary!!!! if we are going to broke or no money going down and down.......
@Clarence...That 700 billion loss is primarily all on paper. The reference is to the value of stocks that are held, not actually cash losses from sales.
Has any one taken a look in to the people that are being polled? how about an investigation in to the demographic that gets polled. Lets keep the polls honest, depending on where they are taken will drastically change the results.
I pray Obama get's it but I feel sorry that he will inherit all these problems! But I truly believe that he is progressive and carry us forward!
I know why the polls reflect that the race is closer than it should be...."That pink elephant in the room" that nobody is going to talk about. And that's unfortunate.
Tracy in NYC, Biden is also at fault at this 36+yrs in the Senate and by the way VOTED for the Credit Card companies going against regular people like YOU & I
I don't know if anyone saw the town hall meeting for town hall meeting McCain and Palin had, but she is bad, and not good bad just bad bad. Her answer, if you can call it that, to the national security question was embarrassing.
And how many years have Biden been in Washington? I think as long or if not longer than McCain.
Obama seems to forget that Biden has been in Washington his whole adult life, and thet Chris Dodd (D-CT) has oversight responsibility for the areas of the economy that are failing.
Excuse any typos but I have had to work long hours to afford our economy 🙁 Working hard on future partial ownership of the business I work for.
Hi Anderson, Erica, people blogging. Coming clean on the stock market? Seems like we've been coming clean all year. That's people's hard earned money.
Did I hear correctly? 700 Billion lost on wall street? Even with 89 Billion promised to AIG? I think I'm more worried about the presidential race of my Ben Franklins and George Washingtons
to the poor house.
What is the deal with teleprompters? Why is the media suddenly so against them? Aren't they kind of like note cards?
It's not surprising that McCain and Palin are taking a hit in the polls–the economy is in a shambles and neither he nor his running mate seem to have a clue how to deal with it.
I just saw Barack Obama here in Las Vegas. He is right on track with his change message. He was great.
It's so scary, I found myself laughing today. Because it's either laugh or cry. I'm no economic wiz, but I could see this coming last spring.
Doesn't make me feel one bit better. Cripes, it's a bloodbath. We desperately need REAL change and not more of the Republican Cabal.
How can McCain say we're not going to stand for it in Washington anymore when he has been part of the corruption and the deregulation? We can't afford to have 4 more years! 8 is enought!
if you notice through this, about, 2 year election coverage, we kind of went over the issues....started with the war, then global warming, then oil, now the economy. thought about last night. i'm sure i've missed some stuff.
Wall Street got greedy. The whole deregulation/nonregulation of these companies is the problem...and the GOP was in charge of all that.
This is something everyone should be looking at closely. Where were the regulators?
This is getting crazy.
I took out my stable stocks today and bought HARD GOLD. The millionaires cannot steal that from me.
Do the millionaires endorsing McCain make you want to vote FOR THE MILLIONAIRES? Not me
Yes, exactly what is this country 'sliding' into?
Even if it stops we are in so much debt to all the other countries they can just take us over!
BIDEN will make a better VP any day....hands down!
The Economy is tanking.......OMG
The Dow went down 449 points!! Asian markets are starting to turns as well......
What is with everybody? Don't they remember that these wallstreet firms are the ones the Republicans wanted us to trust with social security should it have been privitized!!!!
Anybody that is willing to give the Republican's another chance to take us even further into this crisis has got to be a foo! I'm scared and I know for sure we definitely need a change! We can't keep doing the same thing over and over again!
Good Evening Everyone!
Looks like Wall Street is in deep trouble.
Hrm....are we sliding into a depression?